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DAMN, SON. Those are good.

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So, what is it?

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I sort of wonder as their opposites, if some of the women’s behavior was supposed to be opposite too. Dave wouldn’t have been so callous about a baby (obviously, as we can see later in Dear Dave) as was Deb; likewise, Rimmer wouldn’t have been nearly that forward in taking the initiative to jump a woman as was Arlene.

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There were interviews of the boys on a podcast of Sci-fi & Squeam dated Feb. 7 or thereabouts, if you search the iTunes Store.

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Why the 18+? Do the cast finish off the evening with a full monty?

/rethinks inability to attend

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Anytime I have seafood in public, I always hum a chorus of “Little Fishie” over it first. Sometimes I add an optional chair dance.

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“Smeg, smeg, smeg, smeg …” – As always.

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I’m dressed up all fancy
With no ladies to impress
Oh, the woes of a lone Cat
Who’s- HEY! MY shiny thing!

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Well, if you subscribe to the theory I do, that each episode takes place one dimension over from the previous one anyway, you can reconcile all those incontinuities as typical.

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Doesn’t Rimmer say at one point if Lister hadn’t been in stasis, he could’ve helped mend the plate? That would suggest one of three things:

1. Rimmer is trying to deflect blame any way he can (duh, but too easy?)
2. Lister is smarter than Rimmer normally credits to him, and Rimmer knows it
3. It really IS such a simple job that a pixie’s right nut could do it

I like the idea of Holly implanting the memory and video of Rimmer’s death. Also means Rimmer might not have died next to Hollister – it’d be just like Holly to command the skutters to relocate Rimmer’s ashes from wherever he was to the drive room, flake by flake, over a couple thousand years.

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“Blue: Lister and Rimmer kiss. They can’t hide how happy they aren’t.”

Mabel, much as I like this pairing, I think you nailed it. LOLOL

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“Apparently Chris’s radio-voice does… things… to me. I, um, genuinely wasn’t expecting that.”

Oh, honey. Join the large club fanning ourselves.

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“I have a few relatives for whom EVERY day is National Backwards Day.”

Will they be at that FAMILY REUNION in May for which you’re taking time off work to travel?

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Aww, it’s no longer available on the site up there.

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I know, Doug should pose for a photo with Matty that Dave TV could frame enlarged and hang in the corporate boardroom, captioned “OUR FOUNDERS.”

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Out of Time: Rocks fall, everybody dies. Or reboots, whatever.

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“IT’S A SMEGGING ROAST CHICKEN!”

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Well, being the cheap bastard I am, I just got round to ordering my plane ticket for May. Knock wood, I won’t have to cancel, and will be able to really be there …

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No offenses, I wasn’t slagging off on younger folk – it just surprises me there are so many fans in their 20s and under, although I don’t know why it does. Lots of younger people watch Golden Girls reruns or Cosby too, and they’re older shows. :-D

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The thing I’m getting out of this is it seems nobody was a fan of, say, Chris or Rob and Doug from previous work, and was waiting for the first episode to air in 1987-88 (unless I misread anyone). Which, is probably about right given all three were young and not mega-stars or anything.

Also, I get the feeling almost everyone else is a lot younger than forty. Except Pecos, LOL.

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Being a lifelong cat person, I was impressed at how Cat was so catlike without stereotypical feline markings – pointed ears, whiskers, fur, tail, four-footed – and I think that was my first hint at the intelligence of the writing behind Red Dwarf. I didn’t find out until much later the same team had come up with Spitting Image sketches, which I’d seen in bits and pieces in the 80s (and I guess, which probably influenced D.C. Follies, which I watched religiously on Sundays; I was a weird teenager).

I remember Red Dwarf used to be on right after or before Red Green, I guess on PBS, which is how I saw it. It was the mid-90s, I was just out of college and had a real career-type job and didn’t have to live with a roommate or parents anymore. Life was good, LOL – and there were these wonderful little shows that made it better. It’s fun to read these recollections, sometimes very specific “I know what I was doing and where I was” ones especially.

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Fozzi, I’m coming to stay with YOU.

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I’m with you, Karnie. I like Pete as well – it’s comedic, silly, fun, all things I regularly like about RD. Buuuuut …

Possibly where I see it falls down, anyway, is (a) too much repetition – it should’ve been one episode, not two – and (b) it doesn’t really speak to any larger themes. Sure, the species regression was good and the time wand was an interesting tool, but the rest was really just silliness without an emotional core. I think tightening it into one ep might have given it a theme, even something as prosaic as “wow – without Canary missions, shit sure is boring in prison; why, it’s not much better than being stuck on a ship almost alone 3 million years into space. We have to break up this monotony … Basketball, anyone?”

I do like the nekkid menz, though.

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Trojan: “Not at all what you envision when you think of Trojan and Rimmers. Also, some moosing about aboard the Dwarf.”

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A region-free player means you could’ve shut up two months ago, Pete. :-D

But I have one and I didn’t, so there you go.

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Lemons: “The Boys from the Dwarf accidentally end up back in time; Rimmer gets freaky with the savior of mankind … or does he?”

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Hey, by his own assessment, Lister’s pretty good at it. At least as good as his pool playing. ;-)

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Crazy idea, I tell you. Nobody would ever do anything like that!

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The description for Blue is adorable. Mama approves …

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BC, I hear Brent Spiner is another Galveston institution …? ;-)

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*squints* Wouldn’t he be like, at the head of the parade marching into 2013?

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Philosophical question: Is there anyone ever SAD to see an old year go? I never hear anyone say “well, damn, that was a good one – I want it back!”

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Damn bollocks jumbo buggers!! First Rimmer quote of 2013! :-P

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Heh, Brazil’s economy is doing better than ours in some sectors … not too far second, sadly …

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I’m really surprised nuns never figured into Rimmer’s childhood. That and an Uncle Dursley seem the key elements missing from his miserable coming-up tale …

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They get paid a lot to stand around and look, I gather. ;-)

Just some relatives whose business name I don’t know, is all …

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Most of us feminists I think, believe that blame rests with people of all genders who perpetuate any subjugation or regression of any people based on gender (as well as sexuality, ethnicity, what-have-you). We don’t want to see people held back or pigeonholed on an artificial limitation like their genitals; ability or lack of talent or bad performance, fair enough. (You caught the part where I pointed out that editorial writer was a woman, yes?) No male principal could have done better at Sandy Hook simply by being male.

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Pecos, why would you associate a distaste for misogyny with a preference for misandry? If I dislike one,why would I like the other?

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I don’t know their reasoning in this case, but I’ve heard their excuses before, so any number of guesses would likely hit the right nail: lack of religion in schools to “protect” the victims; the sins the victim committed to bring this on themselves; the sins committed in the community; our growing laxness as a society toward permitting gay relationships; abortion; contraception; women using their brains to do more than marry and cook and give blowjobs; etc. etc.

My sister read me a passage from an editorial in The National Review last night (U.S. right-wing toilet paper material), about how this shooting wouldn’t have happened if there’d been a few more burley men or ambitious, non-coddled 12-year-old boys willing to tackle Lanza and protect them passive, docile wimminz. Because OBVIOUSLY Lanza wouldn’t have shot them, too, to get past and at the teachers and kids – and obviously, if the female staff members hadn’t been such little pussies (i.e., female), and been able to stick around for some beefy male hand-to-hand or armed combat instead of herding and hiding all those other kids, why then all those dead kids would’ve been saved. And then they’d have all gone for ice cream with Captain America and the wimminz could have serviced the heroes. Or some such fantasy horseshit.

Oh yeah – the above was written by a woman, apparently. Now how she can spell or form words when us wimminz ain’t s’posed t’ be edumacated, God alone knows. Maybe her husband or father wrote it for her. With their penis.

No, I’m not angry at some of the more extremist idiots I’m forced to share a citizenship with. Why would you ask?

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Mabel, do you know the names of any local contractors/rebuilders (homes, buildings) by the name of Ogle, by chance? Not personally, just the name, I mean.

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Lets try a test that I’ll delete or change if not:

ETA: Well, none of those suggestions worked out, then.

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Well, I may have screwed up; I tried to post some photos using my PhotoBucket account, but it’s not showing up and maybe it doesn’t work or maybe it has to be approved first? Haven’t tried to use PB here before. :-)

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If WBC are trolls, they’re highly dedicated trolls. But it wouldn’t matter if they are, because there are any number of people who DO agree with their stated POV.

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Well, Jim Parsons is from Houston…draw your conclusions from there.

“Mom smokes in the car … Jesus is okay with it, but don’t tell Dad!”

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How the Grinch stole Xmas

Now you’re just baiting us.

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See, now here is a fascinating thought. I’m betting there are plenty of parallel dimensions where the human characters are of varying races; you just have to substitute a different parent or even just a different sperm or egg, and you have a somewhat different look. If Rimmer and Lister can be women in parallel dimensions, they can be black, white, Chinese, Indian, what-have-you.

Which also means there are female Ace Rimmers out there. Look out, Spanners! LOL

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Die Hard is definitely holiday fare. “YIPEE KI AY, KRINGLE!”

Christmas Vacation is a perennial favorite, too. Who can resist baby Leonard? ;-)

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One fan’s pedantry is another fan’s perfectionism. ;-)

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I wonder if the bikers will show up at these services to drown out the WBC protests again.

Honestly, at this point, WBC is a lot like Limbaugh – neither has any teeth, are generally regarded as pathetic attention whores, and so absurd as to be a joke even your old racist uncle’s got sick of telling. They shock nobody and just make you sad and irritated that you have to share a country/planet with them.

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